THE 

WOODBURY 

GRANITES 


WOODBUR.Y  GRANITE  CO. 
HARDWICK  .VERMONT. 


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THE 

WOODBURY 

GRANITES 


SHOWING  A  FEW  OF 
THE  STRUCTURES  IN  WHICH  OUR 
GRANITES  HAVE  BEEN  USED 


WOODBURY  GRANITE  CO. 

HARDWICK,  VERMONT 


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From  Our  Files 

f  I  'HIS  book  is  planned  to  show  some 
of  the  buildings  and  large  mon¬ 
uments  for  which  we  have  furnished 
The  Woodbury  Granites.  Herein  are  to 
be  found  state  capitols,  city  halls,  art 
museums  and  public  memorials. 
Facing  each  picture  is  an  expression 
of  how  our  work  has  appealed  to  some¬ 
one  interested  in  that  particular  piece 
of  construction.  In  the  seventeen  years 
we  have  been  engaged  in  granite  con¬ 
tracting  from  time  to  time  some  archi¬ 
tect  or  builder  has  sent  us  his  unsolic¬ 
ited  testimony  as  to  our  achievements. 
It  is  our  hope  that  this  book  may  inter¬ 
est  others  who  have  granite  work  in 
prospect. 


[Page  three] 


^RESIDENT  Geo.  C.  Markham,  of 
the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  In¬ 
surance  Company,  wrote  us  October 
30,  1913 :  — 

“  There  can  be  no  question  as  to  the 
quality  of  the  granite  you  have  fur¬ 
nished  for  this  building.  I  agree  with 
you  that  it  is  really  beautiful  and  when 
the  building  is  completed  you  will  have 
an  advertisement  that  will  extend  from 
Maine  to  California,  and  from  the  Gulf 
to  the  Great  Lakes.” 


[Page  five] 


JOHN  GILL  8c  SONS 

GENERAL  CONTRACTORS 

CITIZENS  BUILDING 

CLEVELAND 

December  16th,  1914. 

Woodbury  Granite  Co., 

Hardwick,  Vt. 

Gentlemen: 

We  are  very  muoh  pleased  with  the  White  Bethel  Granite, 
you  furnished  us  for  the  Washington  Post  Office,  and  we  also  take 
pleasure  in  informing  you  that  the  Department  is  very  much  pleased 
with  this  work,  as  it  is  out  and  set  very  well  indeed. 

Yours  very  truly, 

JOHN  GILL  AND  SONS 
By 

KFG 


[Page  seven] 


Jos.  H.  Huston,  Architect  State  Capitol,  Harrisburg,  Pa.  Woodbury_Gray_Granite 


TX7 E  furnished  the  400,000  cubic 
*  *  feet  of  granite  in  the  exterior 
of  this  building  in  twenty-two  months. 
The  contractors,  Geo.  F.  Payne  &  Son, 
wrote  us  August  24,  1906:  — 

“We  desire  to  express  our  great  satis¬ 
faction  at  the  manner  in  which  you 
handled  your  work,  and  we  think  we 
can  safely  say,  so  far  as  the  execution 
of  the  granite  work  is  concerned,  it  was 
the  quickest  piece  of  work  ever  done.” 


[Page  nine] 


Holabird  &  Roche,  Architects 


Woodbury  Gray  Granite 


Chicago  City  Hall  and  Cook  County  Court  House 


/^\N  March  25,  1911,  Wm.  Holabird, 
architect,  wrote  us:  — 

“The  Woodbury  Granite  Company 
have  supplied  the  granite  and  fulfilled 
their  contract  in  an  absolutely  satis¬ 
factory  manner  in  every  detail. 

“I  have  personally  twice  visited  your 
works  and  quarry  in  Vermont,  and 
know  that  you  are  equipped  as  well 
if  not  better  than  any  granite  com¬ 
pany  in  the  world,  to  carry  out  large 
contracts  well  and  quickly.” 


[Page  eleven] 


Wm.  Welles  Bosworth,  Architect  Bethel  White  Granite 

Western  Union  Building,  New  York  City 


FROM  “Broadway.”  By  John  G. 
Gartland. 

“The  great  skyscrapers  reared  against 
the  blue 

Like  granite  cliffs  that  sentinel  a  land¬ 
locked  bay.” 


[Page  thirteen] 


Reeves  &  Baillie,  Architects  Woodbury  Gray  Granite 

Merchants  and  Illinois  National  Bank,  Peoria,  Ill. 


\T  JOBST  &  Sons,  Peoria,  Ill.,  gen- 
*  •  eral  contractors  for  this  building, 
wrote  us  June  1,  1916: 

“We,  as  well  as  everyone  connected 
with  the  bank  building,  are  very  well 
pleased  with  the  job  furnished  us  by 
you.” 


[Page  fifteen] 


Kirby,  Pettit  &  Green,  Architects  Bethel  White  Granite 

American  Bank  Note  Co.  Building,  New  York  City 


ca»ic  «oomii‘BAmi5mT'Ni*  *o««. 

QUOTATION*  SUBJECT  TO  CHANOC- 

Am k r  loan  Ban k  Note  C om  pany. 

to -73  Broad  Street. 

NewYork 


Deoember  7th,  1914. 

Woodbury  Granite  Company, 

Hardwiok, 

Vermont. 

Dear  Sira; 

We  are  pleased  to  express  to  you  our  complete  satisfaction  in  the 
granite  work  whioh  was  furnished  by  yourselves  for  our  offioe  building  at 
the  corner  of  Broad  and  Beaver  streets. 

The  manner  in  which  the  work  was  done  gave  to  the  building  a  most 
artistic  appearance,  and  the  lapse  of  six  years  since  it  has  been  occupied 
testifies  to  the  excellent  quality  of  the  stone  as  well  as  of  the  workman¬ 
ship. 

We  would  be  pleased  to  recommend  your  company  to  anyone  contem¬ 
plating  the  erection  of  granite  work. 

Yours  very  truly, 

GHD.S.  Secretary. 


■_Jl- 

DIRECTORS 

E  C  CONVERSE 
WM.E.CORET 
W. MURRAY  CRANE 
WM.  NELSON  CROMWELL 
J.R.OE  LAMAR 
J.  B.FORO 
WARREN  L  GREEN 
ALFRED  JARETZKI 
J.M.  LITTLE 
P  C.LOUNSBURY 
A.MONELL 
C.  A. MOORE 
WALLACE  NESBITT 
CHARUS  M. SABIN 
F.S.SMITHERS 
A.V.  STOUT 
D.E.WOODHULL 


[Page  seventeen] 


T  TNDER  date  of  May  31,  1913, 
Dwight  E.  Frink  wrote  us: 

“The  dedication  was  held  yesterday, 
being  attended  by  thousands  and  the 
comments  on  the  job  were  more  than 
favorable.  The  general  quality  of  the 
stock  and  the  large  sections  or  mem¬ 
bers  of  which  the  monument  is  con¬ 
structed  have  appealed  to  many  and 
we  have  heard  many  kindly  words 
for  the  job.  I  think  it  is  an  example 
of  your  work  in  which  you  have 
reason  to  take  some  pride.” 


[Page  nineteen] 


I 


/^\CTOBER  1,  1906.  Referring  to 
your  granite  which  we  are  using  in 
the  Federal  Building  at  Providence, 
we  would  say  that  this  granite  has  ex¬ 
ceeded  our  expectations  and  that  we 
consider  it  an  extremely  handsome 
and  satisfactory  stone;  and  as  regards 
the  workmanship  we  would  say  that 
it  has  been  very  satisfactory,  and,  as 
far  as  our  experience  goes,  decidedly 
above  the  average. 


Very  truly  yours, 


CLARKE  &  HOWE. 


[Page  twenty-one] 


War  Department, 
Vicksburg  National  Military 
Park  Commission, 

Vicksburg,  Miss.,  May  15,  1911 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  Woodbury 
Granite  Company  of  Hardwick,  Ver¬ 
mont,  contractors  for  the  construction 
of  a  granite  obelisk  at  Battery  Sel¬ 
fridge  in  the  park,  have  fully  completed 
said  work,  in  entire  conformity  with 
the  specifications,  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  Commission,  with  exceptional 
skill  and  fidelity. 

WM.  T.  RIGBY, 

Chairman. 


[Page  twenty-three] 


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Trowbridge  &  Livingston,  Architects  Woodbury  Gray  Granite 

Bankers  Trust  Co.,  New  York  City 


W'ROM  “The  Ivory  Hunters,”  by 
F rederick  Irving  Anderson,  in  ‘ ‘  Sat¬ 
urday  Evening  Post,”  for  October  28, 
1916:  — 

“In  downtown  New  York,  a  region  of 
architectural  giants,  there  is  a  building  that 
stands  up  among  its  neighbors  like  a  spare, 
square  chimney  rising  out  of  a  nest  of  roof¬ 
tops.  At  its  fortieth  story  it  is  capped  by  a 
plain  pyramid,  as  serene  as  Cheops  itself. 
From  the  apex  of  this  pyramid  on  clear,  cold 
days  there  emerges  a  waving  plume  of  steam. 
This  building,  a  giant  among  giants,  houses 
giants.  If  you  took  the  trouble  to  make  a  list 
of  the  men  who  pass  in  and  out  at  the  street 
door  for  a  month,  you  would  possess  a  fairly 
comprehensive  Directory  of  Directors.  The 
elevator  system  that  carries  them  up  and  down 
through  the  tall  shaft  is  run  by  an  ex-rail¬ 
road  superintendent ;  it  has  expresses  and 
locals  and  specials,  and  semaphores  and  red 
and  green  signal  lights,  as  well  as  conductors, 
engineers,  starters  and  a  timetable.  When 
you  start  for  the  top  floor  under  the  eaves  of 
the  pyramid,  it  is  like  starting  for  the  moon, 
and  when  you  arrive  you  find  that  the  earth 
you  left  behind  is  now  laid  out  at  your  feet 
like  the  putty  map  you  used  to  make  in 
school.” 


[Page  twenty-five] 


George  A.  Freeman,  Architect 


Vermont  White  Granite 


Bridgeport  Trust  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Conn 


T  X  7E  have  large  lathes  for  turning 
*  *  granite  columns  such  as  those 
used  in  the  Bridgeport  Trust  Company 
Building,  and  our  quarries  are  capable 
of  producing  monoliths  of  any  size 
desired. 


[Page  twenty-seven] 


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Donn  Barber,  Architect  State  Library,  Hartford,  Conn.  Bethel  White  Granite 


r  |  'HE  educating  influence  of  a  pure 
and  noble  specimen  of  architecture, 
built,  as  the  pyramids  were  constructed, 
to  stand  for  ages,  is  not  to  be  measured 
by  dollars.” 

ANDREW  CARNEGIE,  in 

“The  Ladies’  Home  Journal,” 

for  December,  1916. 


[Page  thirty-one] 


T^REDERICK  C.  Hibbard  wrote  us 
on  February  6,  1913:— 

“My  visit  to  your  quarries  and  manu¬ 
facturing  plants  in  Hardwick  and 
Bethel,  Vermont,  convinced  me  that 
you  have  not  only  a  great  supply  of 
granite  but  unequalled  facilities  for 
working  it  up.” 


[Page  thirty-three] 


Crandall  it  Strobell,  Architects 

Union  Trust  Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


Bethel  White  Granite 


f  I  'HE  Gorsline  &  Swan  Construction 
Co.,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  sent  us 
this  letter  July  5,  1911:  — 

“We  have  finished  setting  your  granite 
for  the  Union  Trust  Co.  We  take 
great  pleasure  in  stating  to  you  that 
we  were  very  much  gratified  in  your 
workmanlike  way  in  which  you  handled 
this  job.” 


[Page  thirty-five] 


McKim,  Mead  &  White,  Architects  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Vermont  White  Granite 


/^\N  March  18,  1914,  we  received  this 
^  telegram:  — 

“We  are  very  much  pleased  with  the 
quality  of  the  granite  supplied  by  the 
Woodbury  Granite  Co.,  and  with  the 
satisfactory  way  in  which  they  have 
carried  out  their  contract  with  us. 

THE  MINNEAPOLIS  SOCIETY 
OF  FINE  ARTS.” 


[Page  thirty-seven] 


Geo.  B.  Post  &  Sons,  Architects  Bethel  White  Granite 

East  Front,  Wisconsin  Capitol,  Madison,  Wisconsin 


I  1RAISE  from  the  late  Senator  Wm. 
^  F.  Vilas,  of  Wisconsin,  dated  Jan. 
9,  1908,  is  worth  preserving.  His  letter 
reads :  — 

‘‘The  work  seems  to  be  going  on  with 
such  rapidity  that  unless  extremely 
cold  weather  sets  in,  you  should  be 
through  with  what  is  necessary  to  do 
before  the  roof  is  complete,  in  a  few 
days.  I  congratulate  you  upon  it  and 
I  feel  myself  a  sense  of  obligation  to 
you  for  the  diligence  and  zeal  with 
which  you  went  after  this  work  and 
have  prosecuted  it.” 


[Page  thirty-nine] 


Geo.  B.  Post  &  Sons.  Architects  Bethel  White  Granite 

West  Front,  Wisconsin  Capitol,  Madison,  Wisconsin 


r  I  'HE  Secretary  of  the  Capitol  Com- 
^  mission  of  Wisconsin,  Hon.  Lew 
F.  Porter,  says:  — 

“If  you  care  to  refer  to  me  as  to  the 
ability  and  honesty  of  your  concern,  I 
will  be  glad  to  recommend  it,  because 
I  feel  that  I  can  truthfully  say  that  out 
of  over  one  hundred  contractors  who 
have  done  work  on  the  building  so  far, 
the  granite  work  has  given  the  least 
trouble.  I  have  always  found  your  con¬ 
cern  able,  willing,  and  cheerful  in  its 
work  and  our  dealings,  and  any  differ¬ 
ences  which  have  arisen  in  the  execu¬ 
tion  of  your  contract,  which  to  date 
amounts  to  $2,000,000,  have  been  so 
slight  as  to  be  forgotten.” 


[Page  forty-one] 


1WTARCUS  T.  Reynolds,  architect, 
of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  wrote  us  April 
10,  1914:  — 

“I  was  entirely  satisfied  with  the  work 
that  you  gave  us  at  Greenfield,  and 
also  with  the  execution  of  the  same, 
which  has  given  everyone  much  satis¬ 
faction.” 


[Page  forty-five] 


E.  L.  Masqueray,  Architect  Bethel  White  Granite 

Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 


\AT  P-  DEVEREUX,  Vice-Chair- 
^  •  man  of  the  Pro-Cathedral 

Building  Society,  wrote  on  Aug.  8th, 
1910:  — 

“As  the  construction  of  the  building 
progresses  everyone  is  delighted  with 
its  appearance  and  it  surely  will  be  a 
monument  to  the  City  of  Minneapolis 
and  a  credit  to  your  company.” 


[Page  forty-seven] 


E.  L.  Viquesney,  Designer  Vermont  White  Granite 

Sedgwick  County  Soldiers  and  Sailors  Monument,  Wichita,  Kansas 


/^\N  February  21,  1913,  Jas.  N.  Miller, 
Secretary  of  the  Sedgwick  County 
Soldiers  Memorial  Association, wrote:  - 

“We  did  not  find  a  flaw  in  the  material 
or  workmanship.  The  granite  is  of  a 
very  pleasing  tint,  and  contrasts  well 
with  the  dark  bronze.  We  are  all 
much  pleased  with  our  Memorial.” 


[Page  forty-nine] 


I  |^QR  the  Cleveland  City  Hall  we 
furnished  220,000  cubic  feet  of 
Woodbury  Gray  Granite,  quarried,  cut, 
carved,  delivered  and  set  by  us.  We 
are  the  only  granite  producers  organized 
and  equipped  to  handle  work  from 
quarry  ledge  to  final  place  in  the  wall. 


[Page  fifty-one] 


KARL  BITTER  wrote  us  August 
7,  1911:  — 

“I  have  known  the  sculptor  for  many 
years  and  feel  that  I  can  tell  him  that 
I  consider  your  material  of  such  supe¬ 
riority  as  you  justly  claim  it  to  be.” 


[Page  fifty-three] 


CHARLES  F.  OWSLEY 
ARCHITECT 

1301*0  MAHONING  BANK  BLDG. 
YOUNGSTOWN.  OHIO 


November  38th,  1914, 


Woodbury  Granite  Co. 

Hardwick,  Vt. 

Gentlemen:- 

In  connection  with  your  work  in  furnishing 
and  setting  the  granite  for  the  Mahoning  County  Court 
House,  it  gives  me  pleasure  to  testify  to  the  excellent 
manner  in  which  you  handled  this  work  from  the  time  of  the 
approval  of  your  very  accurate  setting  and  jointing 
diagrams  to  the  approval  of  the  material  in  place. 

We  are  eminently  satisfied  with  your  ability 
to  fully  carry  out  our  ideas  and  to  understand  the  proper 
co-operation  that  is  necessary  for  this  class  of  work. 


[Page  fifty-five] 


Oscar  Wenderoth,  Supervising  Architect  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Post  Office  Woodbury  Gray  Granite 


